Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry

Neomorph•San Diego, CA

12d

About The Position

We are seeking a talented medicinal chemist with excellent communication and collaboration skills and demonstrated experience working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams (spanning chemistry, biology, pharmacology, DMPK and toxicology). The successful candidate will be a key driver of med chem strategy and a critical contributor to projects, (with opportunities for project leadership), from inception through clinical candidate nomination and will mentor junior colleagues. Applicants should be well versed in drug design concepts and have demonstrated individual and team impact on medicinal chemistry projects.

Requirements

PhD in organic chemistry, or related field with 5+ years, MS with 8+ years or BS with 11+ years of relevant experience
High level of creativity and productivity with strong synthetic problem-solving skills, synthetic methods and reactions mechanisms are required.
Demonstrated expertise in modern methods and technologies in synthetic organic chemistry
Demonstrated expertise in drug design to improve compound affinity, drug-likeness and DMPK/safety properties
Familiarity with structure and ligand based drug design concepts
Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

Propose and independently drive the agreed medicinal chemistry strategy, as well as manage the chemistry team, to advance a program from Hit to Lead to a Development Candidate, in collaboration with other line functions
Contribute intellectually to chemistry project teams through data analysis, compound design and synthetic route optimization
Leading from the bench – candidate will spend a portion of their time in the lab enabling and impacting project progression by developing challenging chemistry that can be transferred to external partners
Manage external chemistry CRO resources
Work within mandated laboratory safety policies and maintain an electronic notebook to company standards.
Contribute to patent filings, publications and presentations

Benefits

Industry competitive compensation
Annual target bonus
Stock options
401K plan
Career advancement opportunities
Monthly town halls to share business and scientific updates
Work Hard, Stay Well
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly Neomorph contribution
Employee Assistance Program
10 holidays + Winter Shutdown + 3 weeks of vacation time with additional accruals after 2nd year of employment, separate sick leave.
Supplemental pay for Pregnancy Disability Leave
Paid Parental Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
Lifestyle
Casual work environment
Volunteer days off each year to spend time contributing to causes you care about
Flexible work schedule
Access to onsite gym
Onsite space to store your bicycle (or surfboard)
Have Fun!
We believe in work/life balance and Fun is at the core of our Core Values.
In addition to department and company happy hours, we have regular company-wide and department lunches and social events (ie Padres games, summer picnic, holiday party, bring your kids to work day).